Les mistons (1957)

While on vacation in a resort town, five children occupy part of his time spying on a pair of young lovers. Unfortunately, children are too far and end your curiosity for meddling too much in the life of that girl that everyone is in love.

The second short movie in Truffaut's work, shot two years before his first (for me, the better) great film, "Les Quatre cents coups" (1959) seems a little sketch of this film, as both explore the world of childhood, a theme dear to the French director.

Despite its shaky, uneven script, "I mistons" can be seen with pleasure. It also contains abrupt tone, sharp and cutting characteristic of the first productions of the Nouvelle Vague. There isn't a minor curiosity in its protagonists recognize some very young Gérard Blain and Bernadette Lafont.


6/10